Software Development Engineer, Quick Governance Platform

Generative AI is transforming how people work but heres the unsolved problem: how do you give an AI assistant to 100000 employees while keeping the right guardrails in place How do you enforce data sovereignty audit every AI action and ensure compliance with regulations like the EU AI Act all without slowing down the teams building the product

Key job responsibilities
We are looking for a Software Development Engineer II to build the policy infrastructure and enforcement systems that make enterprise AI safe at scale. You will design implement and operate distributed services that sit at the intersection of authorization compliance and AI governance systems where correctness is non-negotiable and every decision must be explainable.

Challenges youll tackle:

* Policy management at scale: Build the APIs and services that let administrators create version assign and manage governance policies across complex organizational hierarchies with group-based assignment and inheritance

* Configuration orchestration: Design the control-plane workflows that translate admin intent into policy artifacts consumed by downstream enforcement services ensuring consistency auditability and safe rollout across environments

* Admin observability and analytics: Build the telemetry and analytics pipelines that surface how AI is being used across an organization usage dashboards audit trails compliance reporting and anomaly detection that give administrators real-time visibility and actionable insights

* Cross-team collaboration: Partner closely with authorization identity and guardrails teams to ensure seamless end-to-end governance from the policy an admin authors in the console to its enforcement at the point of AI interaction

About the team
Amazon Quick is a generative AI-powered assistant that empowers employees to be more productive by answering questions generating content providing summaries and completing tasks all securely grounded in enterprise data. Quick serves some of the worlds largest enterprises with deployments spanning hundreds of thousands of users.

- 3 years of non-internship professional software development experience
- 2 years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
- 1 years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
- 1 years of designing and developing large-scale multi-tiered multi-threaded embedded or distributed software applications tools systems and services using: C# C Java or Perl experience
- 1 years of Object Oriented Design experience
- Bachelors degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science Engineering Mathematics or a related field
- Experience programming with at least one software programming language

- 3 years of full software development life cycle including coding standards code reviews source control management build processes testing and operations experience
- Bachelors degree in computer science or equivalent

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience qualifications and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical dental vision prescription Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans EAP Mental Health Support Medical Advice Line Flexible Spending Accounts Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage) 401(k) matching paid time off and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at NY New York - 158100.00 - 213800.00 USD annually